Can get to runlevel 3 - any way to get the radeon driver loaded and x-server started?

Golf4Fun

27th August 2009, 01:08 AM

New downloads of Fedora 12 KDE and Gnome both failed to boot. Same problem as identified in first post.
Both disks had good checksums and were burned at slow speed.

diamond_ramsey

27th August 2009, 02:03 AM

Question: Is there an /etc/X11/xorg.conf file? :)

I have virtual machines running on Sun VirtualBox, VirtualPC, and VMWare, I just needed to have the file created from one of my other virtual machines in order for the Fedora 12 Alpha to be working from the blank screen. Hope this helps. :)

Demz

27th August 2009, 02:26 AM

i dont think there is no xorg.config file no more, there hasnt been one since x-server 1.6.0 , i now think you have to manually create one yourself

AdamW

27th August 2009, 06:03 PM

You have to create xorg.conf if you need one:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_xorg.conf

hoyt: what happens if you just do 'startx' from runlevel 3? system hangs? do you see any useful errors? you can create an xorg.conf according to the instructions above, and set the driver to vesa, and see if that helps, too.

golf4fun: can you take a photo of the error and upload it somewhere? your transcription looks a bit garbled, it's hard to see exactly what happens. thanks!

Hoyt

27th August 2009, 09:41 PM

[QUOTE=AdamW;1259033]You have to create xorg.conf if you need one:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_xorg.conf

hoyt: what happens if you just do 'startx' from runlevel 3? system hangs? do you see any useful errors? you can create an xorg.conf according to the instructions above, and set the driver to vesa, and see if that helps, too.

If "startx" is run thescreen goes black and keyboard control is lost.

Unable to create xorg.conf; when "Xorg -configure" is entered the screen goes black just as above.

By the way, on initital boot the first message is "Failed to initialize radeon disabling IOCI"

jwmueller

27th August 2009, 10:48 PM

I'm also getting this problem. I don't believe the discussion about runlevel and xorg.conf is relevant... kernel panic comes out before the "OK" for starting UDEV. The address displayed on my system is different, don't think that's surprising.

I removed the RHGB QUIET parms on the grub kernel statement and don't get any more info displayed.